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Dr. E. Hopkinson—Sunbirds



and since then they have often been at the Zoo and elsewhere.

Delacour had one which lived seven years and then met with

a violent end with the rest of the collection ( Avic., i, p. 353).

Other references : B.N., 1913, p. 373 ; 1914, p. 284 ; A.M.,


1921, p. 18; 1924, p. 309.


Beautiful Sunbird (N. pulchella (Linn)). Hab. : North Tropical

Africa. Plates : Shelley, Mon., pi. 4 ; A.M., 1929, pi. 53 ; Nat.

Libr., xvi, pi. 18. First imported, 1929. “ One new to the collection,

presented by Mr. Spedan Lewis ” ( Report , 1929). I do not think

any others have reached us.


Kilimanjaro Sunbird ( N. kilimensis (Stanley)). Z. 617. Hab. :

Uganda and Kenya, from Ruwenzori to Kilimanjaro. Plate :

Shelley, Birds of Africa, ii, p. 28, pi. i, fig. 1. First imported in

1921 or 1922. This was to the Zoo, where I saw it, a very bronzy-

coloured bird, as far as I remember.


Wedge-tailed Sunbird (Anthobaphes violaceus (Linn)). Hab. : South

Africa. Plates : Shelley, Mon., p. 8 ; Nat. Libr., xvi; Sunbirds,

Jardine, pi. 16. First imported about 1920. Delacour had one

for four years about that time, the only one imported apparently

till the Zoo got one in 1930 (see Report, 1930).


Maklot’s Sunbird [Chaleostetha calcostetha (Jard., 1843) ; Cinnyris

macklotii, Bp., 1850) ; Nectarinia pectoralis (Temm., 1823), pre¬

occupied). Hab. : Malaya, Siam, Sumatra, Java, etc. Plates :

Shelley, Mon., pi. 30 ; Nat Libr., pi. 25 ; Robinson and Kloss,

Birds, Malay Peninsula, ii, pi., p. 308. First imported, 189-.

“ About twenty-five years ago a male lived a long time at the

Berlin Zoo ” ( Nzig., p. 106). The only record I know.

Black-breasted Sunbird [Mthopyga saturata (Hodgs.)). Hab. :

Himalayas. Plates: Shelley, Mon., pi. 11; Nat. Libr., pi. 28;

B.N., 1916, pi., p. 74 (not good). First imported about 1924.

Delacour and Mrs. Bourke have kept it.


Himalayan Yellow-backed Sunbird [Mthopyga siparaja seherice

(Tickell)). Z. 618. Hab. : Himalayas. Plates: Shelley, Mon.,

pi. 22 ; Nat. Libr., xvi, pi. 26 ; A.M., 1914, pi., p. 89. First

imported 1914, when it was in Count Segur’s collection in Paris.

Mr. Ezra and others have had it since. “ A common cage-bird



